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LITERARY REVIEW. The, HOLY BIBLE, neWly Translated from the Original Hebrew, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Joan BELLAMY, Author of " The History of All . Religions."— Longman, Ho rst,.Rees, Orme, and Brown, Vaternoster row ; Budd and Calkio,'Pall-Nlall. We take the earliest opportunity in .our power to c,all'the attention of our Readers to this most intti e stin t • stud itnuot twit Work, wiiich we Are glad to stAe souportell in its pre,eni early stage.by some of the first charneters both in' the Church and State. The et rots of our venerated Transla tion hive too long fornistted materials for the stubborn infidelity and systematic blasphemy of men who, under the prostituted name of Philoso phy, combined to I:ti , dcrtnine and to shake to its very centre the anblitue doctrines of Revelation. We are, therefore, prepared, and every honest att:l impartial mind now he prepared, to give a li beral and Candid opportunity to whatever means ntay be off, red. however humble, to bring forward a new and more .perfect Translation from the ori ginal Ilebreaf ; and ill would it become any set of men to oppose or counteract the efforts "even of an intlitidual, who:after the long, itnwearied application of 11 p wit rds of thirty years to the study of the Hebrew Language, comes forward, in the face of this gecat, inderrendent, and enlightened country, to render that streatu more pure which 41 , ,weth froM•" the . fonntain of living waters." • With these ideas fully impressed on our minds, we were glad toobser%e the names of our 11Ins -trim's Prince Regent - , her Maji sty the Queen, and the other branches of the Royal Family, gracing the head of this Work, as wt• 11 as of the Duke of Gloucester, Chancellor of the University of Cant -bridge ; the Ri•rl►t lion. Lord Grenville, Chancel lor of the Univetsity ot•Oxford ; the -Right lion Lord Hard%Orke, High Seward of the University of Cambridge, and tome of the most eminent of our Bishops, with many of the first Scholars in the country. We repeat our satisfaction on see ing: this early and powerful support; 'because it clearly spews, notwithstanding what Dissenters and v a rious persons hostile to the, Establishment may assert, that there is a noble liberal spirit in herent in 'the country, and prevailing from the hrone, throughout the,sev . eral gradations of so .. 'cloy, readily and fairly to meet any attempt, on rational and sound principles, to throw fresh light on thOse abstruse passages in the Holy Scripture rbich have puzzled and perplexed, and often, in deed, alienated - sonic of the ablest and most up tight minds. • We have neither the time nor limits that would allow us to give_this sacred and important Work the notice and the examination which it appears to us in every respect to merit. Its purport and tendency come home immediately to - the . heart of every one, and if it should he r iven to the present Wo r k, liv a ff ording a purer "Cranslation of Scrip ture, entirely' to overthrow tho4e attacks whit h -Infidels have too-long directed against the Bible, it must assuredly be a high gratification unto all to reflect that the acme country which Overthrew the Infidel power established. by Military, Despett ism in France, has also been Permitted to over throw-lhe•system which Atheism, Deism, • Uni• tarianism, (or tinder whatever delusive name may phase to cloak itself) had gloried in laving established throughout the troild. .Mr. Bellamy, in his Introdoctioo, dens speaks of the Septuagint :—" These remarks will f law that if he oldest of all Translations, called the Septua gint, be in „this disordered state, whet e in every :Book we find a±rent number of verses wanting, we can only.depend on, the. Hebrew. To this wet fountain, of - eternal truth we must appeal ; ivbere we shalt find no chasms, no deficiencies .;• the historical narratives and the prophetic writ ings •are all perfect.. 1, therefore, refer to no 'Trorislittions for even a semblance of authority.— ] assure the-Reader that it is more sale to depend even on the present atithoried version, with . 811 its errors, than on any of the .versions made in the first ages of the Christain Chip - eh, and that for the best of reasons ; the Hebrew was only understood. by - Jeers, for we find, as was said, that ,Jerome, in the ninth century, after the return of Atte Jews from Babylon, or ilte fourth of the Christian ...Era, knew very little of it, so that in many places which were, unintelligible in the Greek, he was obliged to make out the sense as well as he could by, the assistance of a Jew; who did not understand the Greek and Latin Languages. Therefore, if the Greek trans lation made'by Anni!l, so early as the 130th year of the Christian and those made by Theo. dotian and Symmachns, to about the year 200, • were so faulty' in the time of -Ot igen, that by the 'corrections he mitie, Ire toomi it, tiitlica:t 'to • approach to any thing like truth ;' and if Hieron declared, that in his day the Greek trans!ition was so toll Of errors, that he was in &teed to attempt a Latin translation front the Hebrew,: we cannot hesitate in determining to a certainty, - agteeahly to the first Greek Fathers, Soho it Must be allowed, at this remote period of Christian . antignity, were best- able finally to de termine this most important point, that the Hebrew Scriptures only were to be depended on, in order to gait) a true knowledge of-the will of God to . man." In anoT.her part of his introduction, Mr. Bel lanly tilos expresse , himself :—" The specimens I have given in my Prospectus, of ihe state of the present common version, and which I have prov ed here to be the true sense of the original, have given great satisfaction to all unbiassed and un prejudiced Teaders.• For no bigot, having the use of tight reason, can possibly believe in his heart, bowever he may profess to believe, that the Pro phet was authorized to grant a pardon and an in dulgence In Naaman to commit sill in future, 2d Kings, verse IS ; that if evil be in the city, the Lbrd /Lath done it, Amos, •3. 6 ; that God com manded the Prophet to make the heart of the people fat, their ears hewiy, and to shut their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and eonrert and be healed, Isa. 6. 10. ‘V-lio, believing in the Supreme woilld have the hardihood to say, because .is so said in the common version, Alt ! Lord God, .surely thou has greatly deceived this people, itr. 4. ID. Oh ! Lord, - thou host de ceictd me, Ch. 27. I. am perfectly confident that THE SUN. •DEEM QUIS DICERE FALSI-131 AUDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1818. HER MAJESTY,. SUN' OFFICE, ONE o'CLocx. We are •extremely sorry to infoim 'the Public, that Her MAJESTY was taken very ill in the course of last night, and that in consequence, Sir FRANCIS _ , MILLMAN and Sir HENRY 11 ALI. ORD Were irnme- diately sent for, who remain in attendance this day. Her MAJESTY IS fortunately at Bucking- ham [louse, but she was, we regret to athi, bed hen this Paper was put to press. We received yesterday the Paris Papers' of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not arrived in course; The venerable Prince de CONDE expired on Sunday morning. We give some details 'from the Journals respecting him in another column. The Chamber of Peers did not meet on We:!- nesday. The discussion on the Budget, which was to commence on Thursday, was expected to he short, and the Projet to be agreed to without amendment, the close of the session being fixed to take place in the course of the present week. The Projet respecting the Batik of France, and other business, is to be postponed till the next Meeting. In the mean time one fifth of the De puties go out by rotation, and their places must be supplied by new elections. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE entered Cassel in state on 'the 6th inst. The Grand Duke MICHAEL Of Russia was expected to proceed from thence to the Russian head-quarters at Maubeuge, and from there to England. The Session of the Diet of Poland was closed 00 the 27th tilt. v,iili a Speedl from the Erpieror bf rtUilIA, congratulating that nutly on the usc • • ful results 'of their labours. FIVE PER CENTS. 'Wednesday 6B f. DEFERRED STOCK Wednesday snf. 45 c. PACDANGF. ON LONDON. One Month 23_ f,,,,70 C. Three Months 23 f. 50 e. The two Letters from our Parisian Correspon dent which we insert this day, contain some very interesting matter. Much of their contents, in deed, are applicable to the state of things in this country, particularly as to the speeches, &c. &c. in our House of Commons, and they also afford a sa lutary lesson to tlose who are at the helm of the British Government. Jamaica Papers arrived thia morning to the 12th ult. 'The following arc Extracts : " KINGSToN, APRIL 4.—We learn fret)] Porto BeUo,- that two Insurgent privateers had coin mitted great depredations in the South Seas, hav ing captured and burnt a number of Spanish ves sels, valuably laden. They sailed about a month ago, supposed With the intention of obtaining, among the Friendly Isles twhere the celebrated circumnavigator, Capt. COOK, met with great hos pit,alit y)„sopplies, and the means of refitting. " The . Piercey left the Downs on the 3d of Fe bruary. She came to anchor in Funchal Roads, Madeira, on the 20th, and sailed from thence"on the 27th. Off Ahavela, on the 22d ult. the Piercey was boarded by a long low schooner, under Spanish colours,-wkh three gems, one on a pivot, and NH of men, chiefly English and Americans, who took from her a hag of bread and a hamper of potatoes, and intimated to Captain SMITH, that unless he gave them they would be Liken by force, and they refused to tell the-name of the vessel or of. 'her - Commander. Yesterday se'nnight the Piercey was chased for a considerable time by a Felucca privateer; blit the ship Marsh, RICHTER, from London to Montego-Bay, heaving in sight, the Piercey hove to, when the felucca tacked, and stood.away to the southward. " The schooner mentioned, above as having hoarded the. Piercey was rigged forward with topsail, top-gallant sail, and royal, and had a gaff top-sail. The person who set'!inesl to be the, Officer •c9mmandiug was a Spaniard, shout six feet high, and wore IMlstachnes, . There (vas also an Englishman on board, who %vas an Officer, about the middle size, blind of one eye, round faced, and marked with the small-pox. She is sitpposed to• have been-built in America, and. is no ift,uht a pirme schooner, Which had sailed from some port in the United States. - " LOSS OF THE SCHOONER LILIAH/GF ANTIGUA. " KINGSTON, ST. VINCENT'S, MARCH 4.—On the 18th nit. the schooner Liliah sailed from To bago for this island, with three passengers, Miss B. CHICHIE . , her sister in law and child, with tiro servants', the crew consisting of two white men and a coloured young man, nansed WILLIAM HUGlies, of Antigua. On the subsequent, night, at 'half•past ten P. M. to windward and near the East reef of Ganouan, the wind blowing hard, the main-mast went by the board, Which fell over the lee quarter, and rendered the vessel un governable : in this perilous stale the schooner drifted on the fatal reef ; we are sorry to relate Captain PATERSON was the only surviving indivi dual; he drifted on the main hatchlo Little To- . batiq ; there having recruited his strength, he reached Mireau by Swimming ; at this - island Captain P. experienced every attention and assi duity. from Mr. ST. LimAtite's Manager ; hence she sailed to Ganouan, and arrived here on Mon. day last." The Morning Chronicle of this day contains what it stiles " official" accounts from the Spanish C - lonies respecting the Revolters ; but as those ac counts come wholly from the latter, and record the victories of flouvAn, though. accounts of a quite contrary description have recently reached this country, they should be received with great suspicion and distrust, particularly as The Chronicle has manifested such a determined hostility to the old Spuds!' Government. We therefore do not think it necessary to transfer these professed " ogrial" accounts to the columns of Tire Sur till they wear a more authentic shape. The conduct of the Americans in denying the right of Great Britain to exclude Strangers from her Colonial Trade, is an attack upon the Law of Nations, which ensures to her art exclusive right to her own Colonies, with all the benefits that could be derived front thent. If the right of the British Nation be thus derived from the Law of Nations, the American Goverment must be wrong in disputing that right—as right and wrong must for ever stand opposed to each other. That exclusive right began at the distant epoch of Colonization, and has been enjoyed, uninter ruptedly. froth that epoch till the late intenzip. ; 1 ,1 , ilor. This coniNct, then, is not al-0y 6 Jetl T o r the efficacy of the Law of Nations, but la iit s 7 l C 1 denial of the authority of alt the States ‘ChI 1 1# hold their . several rights _nnder the Lo y o f ; a. lions. linos. The Party who thutt'sets the ' Law' " tions at defiance, may live to feerthat the iik tbtt of•Natjont s cannot be invaded with imptevi t i • t tic ° - An Alien Act is so necessary for e P roec of the Country that we feel it to be one dtil a t return to the subject. That Ministers ba" A ct abased the power vested in them ICY (bat evident, horn the very few Persons vilitk ba" be d sent out of the Country, and whose chara cters tio principles were_ such that Governme nt ri :e , giossly have neglected its dut7 if they f act suffered to remain among as. As - to di e , e- t; stated by-Mr. LYTTELT ON , it a dmits of e°9sl ' l) o, most satisfactory explanation. D l4°l ' 01 Foreigner in question, was s e nt o ut of the Countiro in June 1813, and he imp u d en tly chase t° nett' in the following year, and was consequently off again under the former order. The r ettl t ' s l4l Aliens to the House was ordered from J tt l Y l e of and it was nornecessary to in e tude the i t ' °P the Person who was aw a y upon ft form er o 13ut the than was sent off at a t ime ' llet ti ) c ei Alien Act was in full force, and at a veil V r ' t l . e c( lar crisis of the War. Mr. LY,TI ELTON { / 14Y ,he' to•tbrow,ridic u ! e u p o n th e ina tt er , by itsid 9g :ono flier the sale of Gout water, by_ t l ' is BEFORT, was " dangerous to the peace 811( ' dist finality of the Empire," but till Ire c an the vender did not deal ius political poiso , as in Eau Medicinale, his taunts will " le effect upon the good sense of the PenP le• ; r tli would ask this Gentleman in ret u rn, ol' etle does not think that Ministers had formation respecting the man in quesl io" ° f t lt justified them in . again sending hint ot' t °, at if country; .and whether he really suprs es "Ittslt they had reason to be satisfied that he ' 9OIY ‘ l . ‘ fic‘f _in Gouty Water, they would have d ist : ti t tiForeigner in so peaceable an occupatinu cannot suspect them of such wanton illib er3 , s (ot The probability is, that they bad good grP9tll' f oci ordering the man away in the first in .slBllc j' :ifee to that those grounds were strengthened y er fiii mation which they had received in th e iP‘ t fe l (bat passed before his obtrusive and ifyr` icl' .(.$ 1 turn. For our part, we heartily agree , vi tb 's oot M. 14. , Ctive , saiti on the occasion., v iti chi t France is by no means yet in a settled state ; there were not Wanting individuals in F ea" ec, o f' elsewhere, ready to take 0 4 :v a ntage of s t 4 °t ; . lo' tuoity to disturb ‘ he general tranonilli t Y o. o . e ft rope ; men who knew only war; and if o' l ho ll suffered to - settle in this country, wi''' se't og' object would be to excite war; and th e 11('' 1:" 1/ able Meniber properly observed, that a right to protect ourselves against sue ) ! a° 00 The Hon. Gentleman also confirmed die fact °oer lenient use which Ministi , rs had made " t- tbe r _ P ► 1 0 ; conferred by the Alit n Act, since, daring of the last %Ili years, only three Pers'iti been sent out of the kingdom. N o w it Itll'l 6e he affirmed, that if Ministers had been tlisit°' (104 i lYt „ if put that power, we will nor say rigor ° e e more actively, in force, they would hav e b oile justified in ordering away several more; b°lotalt there wits a hope that several suspicions Cit r ot 9) 1 1' might remain quietly among us, Govertottepritid fered them to enj•ty a protective asylut n it) hospitality. ha y 13 0 0 The East India Company's ships ° °l : -. r i 151./ Chatics Grant arrived off Pon . lind the Pt'lp.ool and in the Downs yesterday, They s3iieti'. Macao the 21st Dccetnber, and from St' the 28th March. al e ! The Vansittart and Herefordshire w ere t° 11 St. Helena the ' 7 9th March. 0 1°1 The Thidgewaler and Lowther Castle or r ; '' ' 0 0 4 ' St. Helena the 28th March, The C' inist :rc lP ' Thomas Grenville arrived there the 7til . 1 it and ~vere to sail for Eneland on the sth Mr" th PORTER.--We are concerned to hi'd tha t PORTER.--We investigation into the evils of the fAtc 0451:46 " Teat, as affecting the prle' and q ualitY of Lt.. for $ tional beverage, makes but slow progress b e the Committee of the House (;f C°lllll°llAllti whom it was referred the week before la st ' t nesses were examined every day, 31111 "14 Ill ! portant disclosures were nytde ; hat d'ri°4stir. w ere if. l last week the sittings of the Committee peptic(' altogether. In a fery weLlis understood, Parliament will be (1155°1°1' then the inquiry will be at an end. OA to find that eve"o" To WATsoN.—We are who sympathize with this Witid, with contempt and to t) o' i rrtole himself at C owl t ; ) Iw...en( a set t face t I T ° PRINCE RVGI'NT, T; ere Re for ot t er i . i110 1 " 11 t t l l e i e e d dressv.* of tliiie 11:14/4 will look like. Tom Errord ' 1 " dres s °' 44. Clincher,. and at all events the l Farce e tf 5t tattling to the spectators. l"l,_ rtc,por,teltl ,11.0 •no truly learned tnan,,no intr vitt matt, no man capable of distinguishing between right 'god wrong, and having the honesty to give his opi‘ nion, whether Christian or Jew, will he so loi s pioOs as to impeach the moral character of the God of mercy, by declaring him to be such a Being as lie is represented to be in these and in many other 'passages in the common version:* The Author, - in his general preface, thus tlosclares the motives which •first induced hiin to begin the gigantic labour of a new translation from the original Hebrew At an early period of my lite I Was taught to believe that. the Bible was the word of Got!, that it contained a summary of all knowledge necessary for our present and eternal happin6is. As I advanced in years, and my lin derstanding began to he capable of forming tight conclusions, I was struek with the grandeur and dignity of many parts of the common version. I rightly concl u ded, that if it were so excellent in the translation, what must it be in the original ? and from that period a desire to obtain a know ledge of the sacred language absorbed eves y other consideration. I therefore soffered 'nothing to put aside the- accomplishment of this first-great objt.et. I have now devoted upwards of thirty years of my life to the study of the Scriptures, and upWards of twenty to this work." We cart not feel ourselves .in giving either pas sages from the original Hebrew of the Bibte, of any of the profoundly leatned and satisfactory tortes of the able YraoshitOr, in a public J our na I . All of them are Uniformly flietotly an d tending to support the - Established Church noder we live, and we think .we have-now said sufficient to indoce e very Reader who has good heart and a good head to refer for further eluci dation to the work itself. NI(.. Bellamy has at present only published the first part of his new translation, which contains the Book of Genesis. BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS Mr, Canning; Bill to quiet doubts of the valiility of certain Marriages in England. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lottery• Resolutions— . of Ways and Means.) Sir Samuel Romilly; Select Committee on'the Papers rela7 live to the treatment of .Slaves in the Island of Nevis ; and to Move for opinion of the Law Officers in the Island of Domi nica as to the Galley Gang. Mr. Peel; Irish Miscellaneous Services.—(ln Committee of Supply.) -- 13111 for prevention of Frauds in the Exporta tion of Grain from Ireland. Lord Palmerston ; Grant fur Disembodied Committee of Supply.) Bill to amend Acts relating to Allow ances to the Families of Soldiers. . Bill to enforce Returns of the Effects of deceased Officers and Soldiers. • THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed on Saturday Night. THEATRE ROYAL. DRETRY-LAKR.—Bertram : Bertram, Mr. Kenn; Imogine, Miss Macauley. After which (Ist time), The Blaekamoor's Head. Tint:Al - HE ROYAL, Covi:NT-GARDE.v.—(9th time), 13ellam:ra : Montalto, Mr. Young; Bellamira, Miss O'Neill. After which (Ist time), December and May. •. MAILS. ARRtvEn.-2 Th,bred, s.Wa L rf, e ,:, 1 Gner3sey. 1 Elnnand, 1 Gotlenburgli, I France, I tlancirta, i Ja. niskica.. DUE-I Lisbon, 1 ILunburgh. Yesterday PRINCESS OF WALEI BOR N .—Kept this day at the Bank, Exchequer, East India, and South Sea Houses. lIIGI4 WATER AT'LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning, 3 minutes after I. I Evening, 28 nnnutes after I. 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